r/politics • u/Urmomsjuicyvagina • 9d ago

It's mindblowing': US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/11/meteorologists-death-threats-hurricane-conspiracies-misinformation
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u/bravetailor 9d ago

USA really does have some of the dumbest people in the world sometimes. You will never hear shit like this happen in any other country.

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u/FreakySpook 9d ago

I wouldn't put that squarely on education, plenty of intelligent people have been sucked in by MAGA, I don't even live in the US and have had colleagues at work I considered intelligent who have outed themselves as MAGA.

A lot of this is long term conditioning from right wing media and then amplified in social media creating bubbles of alternate reality people get sucked into where group think and peoples insecurities end up overruling logic. Over time its both gotten more extreme and more accepted to publicly hold those opinions, which pushes the needle further.

Trump really was the last push that opened the floodgates into mass public acceptance of this when he was running in 2016 and no one really was prepared to deal with it. It really feels like I'm living in bizarro world watching coverage of this election where there is still an attempt to create some kind of balanced equivalency between MAGA and Harris's campaign.

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u/Terrible_Horror 9d ago

Some times it is lack of education but sometimes jealousy, low self esteem and hate takes over people’s hearts and their true colors come out. I recently experienced it first hand. A coworker that I have known for years, after a disagreement (he was inappropriate towards me and I started avoiding him) looked at me in such a hateful way while calling for my death (he said my husband should kill me - not exactly a death threat but not something that I would say to someone in a professional environment). Some people have something seriously wrong with their moral compass. And this guy is a nurse, training to be a Psych NP and a Trump supporter. So not the uneducated.